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Report on the Legislative to Local Education 2025 Meeting

Education meeting Freedom to Read Jan 2025

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

Freedom to Read Event Produces Large Turnout

Is registration by party coming to S.C. as session opens?

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

Medicaid Expansion Moves Forward

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in January 2025.

News

A number of studies have reported that both the health of South Carolinians and the state’s economy would improve if Medicaid were expanded to include 360,000 residents with very low incomes.

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in April 2024.

Research & Studies

Health Care in Anderson/Oconee/Pickens Counties and SC

Submitted by Janet Marsh Member, LWVOP Health Care Team

The Supreme Court: What's Next Monthly Program

Submitted by Oconee and Pickens Counties in October 2023.

Press Mention

Photo: Chip Stapleton (left) and Holley Ulbrich, Co-President of LWVOP (right)

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Oconee and Pickens Counties Subscribed Articles

Five Major Legislative Issues of 2025 and their Impact on 2026

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Blog Post

Throughout the first year of the 119th Congress, the League of Women Voters did advocacy work around legislation with significant implications for both our democracy and the people within it. This blog looks back at five of the most consequential legislative battles of 2025, as well as their implications for our country and the League’s 2026 advocacy work.

Voting Rights Groups Challenge Executive Order on Mail-In Ballots as Illegal Interference in Elections

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit today in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts challenging President Trump's March 31 executive order concerning mail-in voting.

Voting Rights Advocates Sue to Block Florida’s Restrictive “Show Your Papers” Law

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

Voting rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida House Bill 991, a new law requiring documentary proof of citizenship, warning that the measure will disenfranchise eligible voters and create unnecessary barriers to the freedom to vote

League of Women Voters Responds to Executive Order on Mail-In Voting

Submitted by the US (LWVUS) in April 2026.

Public Statement

The League of Women Voters issued the following statement in response to the president’s executive order, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.”